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According to the article, The basic problem is that Africa has a huge debt and in order to pay that

debt needs to cut budget that should be consider for health sector, but how about the actual panorama of the countries mentioned on the article? Well, in first place mention Zimbabwe (where one in four is infected) Kenya (one in seven) and Botswana that had the highest ratio of infection (more than one third of all adults). How is now? The progressing reports of the site UNAIDS its that in first place, Botswana is now on the second place of rate of infection, just after Swazilandia with a rate of 24.8% of its adult population. Kenya, in 2011, had a rate of approximately 6.2% that represents a drop of 40% of the 10.5% peaked in 1995 1996 but people that lives with HIV lives more as a result of improved acces to HIV treatment. Zimbabwe has noticed that HIV prevalence has declined from 23.7% in 2001 to 18.4 in 2005 and to 13.1% in 2011. This declined is attributed to the implantation of prevention strategies of behavior change and high use condom and reduction of sexual partners. The other two cases mentioned are Tanzania and Malawi. The first one as an example that they spent more of the GDP paying debt (3.1%) than health care (1.3%) in 1998. The second example, with its 16% of adults infected spent, between 1995 and 1998. The annual deaths provoked by HIV started to decrease in Tanzania as an indication of an effective response estimating that at 2015 will be below 350,000. This will be through prevention on mother to child transmission, HIV testing and counseling, condom delivery etc. In the case of Malawi shows also a declining on the prevalence of HIV having a decrease on the mortality from 76,000 on 2005 to 43,000 on 2011 and its due to success of antirethroviral therapy program (ART) implemented since 2004 with support of the Global Fund.

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